Britain also saw a significant rise in immigration from its colonies after World War Two as people from Asia, Africa and the West Indies took advantage of their right to settle in the United Kingdom. Britain adopted a different approach to the French in recognising the cultural diversity of its population, recognising that differences in cultures do exist and that they should be respected. However, many people in Britain argued that cultural diversity was leading to the destruction of British culture and traditions and led to rising racial tensions. Like in France where racial tensions led to rioting in the cités, Britain suffered rioting in 1981 in Brixton in London and Toxteth in Liverpool. Immigrants in France accused the police of repression in immigrant communities.
In this essay I will be discussing whether or not immigration had any impact on Britain in the years 1955-75. The areas I will be discussing are; the racism and tensions which took place in communities, the political impact of the immigration and taking place and lastly I will discuss the increasing multiculturalism and integration between communities. In my opinion I believe that increasing multiculturalism and integration was the most important impact on immigration. I believe that the most influential impact of immigration on Britain in the years 1955-1975 was the increasing multiculturalism and integration, I think this because the attitudes by the people how were behaving towards integration were slowly changing, some people wren accepting the immigrants and the government and other people were being inspired by them. For example as pointed out by Bushnell and Warren point out ‘The ‘color bar’ in public places were banned.
To what extent was Racism the main reason for changing attitudes towards Immigration in the 1920s It can be argued that racism was the main reason for changing attitudes towards immigration in the USA in the 1920s. The three immigration acts put tighter restrictions on who was deemed worthy enough to live and work in the USA. Other factors included political fears of Eastern European ideologies such as communism and anarchism, economic factors such as jobs and housing, and social factors such as crime, religion and culture. All of these created much hostility and discrimination towards many hopeful immigrants. They were a precursor to violence and rioting in what was a fundamentally racist society.
Members of the KKK believed that only “white” America is the true America. The revival of the KKK brought hatred to the country, and caused harm to many Jews and other innocent people. The 1920s can be compared to the time of the Gilded Age. It looked good on the surface, but underneath it had a lot of problems. Farmers’ hardships, overuse of credit, and the KKK were some of the problems of the
In the work place discrimination can play a huge role in a person's race or skin color unfairly becoming a factor when deciding who receives a job, promotion, or other employment benefits. It has been said that whites have received favorable treatment, being ahead of other races and ethnicities when it comes to job offers and or promotions. Racial discrimination in the work place can also seem as if you are being harassed by co-workers and or your boss. Our own presidents as well as other politicians of the United States are extensively discriminated against. Because Of the variety of races and ethnicities they has been a targeted by various predominantly white organizations.
Everyone wants someone to point the finger towards. For instance, currently the United States is facing a large number of unemployed citizens. Those without jobs might put blame on the socio-economic struggle on immigrants and aliens, who just happen to be Hispanic. The main reasons for this particular group receiving so much hate falls on two concerns. The first, there are large groups of illegal South Americans coming through the Mexican border annually, who potentially take jobs from native white Americans who remain jobless.
There is a tendency to view the racial segregation in American housing as the result of several local, uncoordinated decisions made in the past. Typically, Americans are told that once African American families began moving into a neighborhood, their prejudiced white neighbors would panic and start fleeing. This in turn led to plummeting property values, tax revenues, and a cycle of deteriorating neighborhoods that were in sharp contrast to those occupied by white residents. All of this taken together has some truth, but it is masking a far more important factor. For most of the twentieth century, racially discriminatory policies of federal, state, and local governments dictated where white and black citizens should and could live.
A lot of opposition has been struck up against immigration but a lot of people use the roots of the United States as a compelling argument as well. They brign up the fact the United States first settlments were started by immigrants. With the onset of the great depression in the nineteen thirties a lot of europeans immigrated the urban areas of the United States. So not only does the United States a history of immigration but it is also written on the statue of liberty. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
(OCDE 2006) In the past Americans have placed blame on immigrants for social and economic instabilities. We have seen anti-Semitism, racism, segregation and various other forms of discrimination toward immigrants for decades. As a result a sense of “otherness” has developed towards particular minority groups, creating a separation between “us” as citizens, and “them” as immigrants. Intern this separation has fostered social diasporas amongst generations. Currently American society is establishing the same sense of “otherness” as we have seen in the past towards Latino’s, our most recent immigrants to the United States.
However, the British perception was that their jobs and homes were being taken from them and they also had a belief that ‘blacks’ were uneducated, lazy and dirty. This culminated in the 1958 ‘Race riots’ which started in London and then, later on, progressed to Nottingham. Over a period of two decades there came